Hi,
I am looking into getting a S/L set of the Dark Tower books (and "only" those).

Does anyone have any advice on how to go about it? My thought (way back when I was a student) was to save up enough $$$ and buy a complete set (this was around the release of DT V). With each new book I kick myself for not getting on the bandwagon earlier. I have even turned down buying a S/L copy from Grant during the big depression when the lottery didn't claim all copies.

There is a matching set with books I - VII on ebay right now with a buy it now price of $9000 which is a lot of money. The chance of getting the matching numbers of Eluria and TWTTK seems slim.

Im in Sweden so the S/H is a factor (also our poor exchange rates, USD/SEK has increased like 30%).

What is the realistic cost for a complete S/L set? If I were to purchase the individual books (and forget matching numbers) is there any order you would recommend? I know that The Gunslinger is one of the most rare books in the series.

The links aren't working but I'll take your word on the eBay prices, they can often be low.

Still...I'm assuming those would all be unmatched sets, certainly an under #500 matched set should offer a premium to those individual listings. Betts recently had a Matched set that also included WTTKH, LSOE, Black House & Desperation and that sold for $13,000

Even if you generously said those additional 4 books were worth $3,000 that leaves $10,000 for the remaining DT 1-7.

So In order to make that $7,500 figure we have to value the S/L Gunslinger at $4,005....I just don't see people parting with their S/L Gunslingers for 4k very often. I'm not saying it hasn't happened ever, and that you couldn't, possibly build out a non-matched set for under $8,000 with the proper amount of patience and a bit of luck.

But where I'm going with this is that in my mind, conceivable non matched at $7,500 isn't the same as saying the current value of a fully matched set all in one place is also $7,500. That's my take on it.

By the way, in case I haven't mentioned it before - I love your posts, you get right to the point - Decisively.

No, that looks like an earlier attempt from same seller, both auctions ended with reserve not met, one at 8k, one at 7.8K. I personally don't understand the mentality of the reserve, why not raise the start bid to your reserve. Seems like there is not a big delta between his reserve and buy it now price.